Paid Notice: How many people do you know who have cross-country skied on Georgica Beach? Richard Fabricant, who died on July 9 at 94, peacefully, at his home in East Hampton, was one of them. 

As goes the little saltmarsh sparrow, so goes the salt marsh. In what could be a win for both, a team of scientists will now capture and band saltmarsh sparrows at Accabonac Harbor.

The public relations firm WordHampton has long had its finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the East End business community. That comes with the job. And now, with a new office overlooking Park Place in East Hampton Village, it is part of that pulse in a way that was not quite as tangible from its former headquarters in Springs.

East Hampton Town continues to make investments in its dispatch capabilities, with the town board most recently approving a $1.5 million bond issue for improvements to its dispatch center on July 3.

ReWild Long Island and East Hampton Town have launched an initiative to encourage backyard composting by taking advantage of a “flash sale” on compost bins and expert support.

The East Hampton Town Trustees voted to authorize a special season for the taking of soft clams or razor clams by the method known as powering, or churning.

Speaking at an Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee Meeting this week, State Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavoni said that rebuilding of the Cranberry Hole Road bridge is included in the M.T.A. capital plan, “but the pace is glacial.”

The case of Augusta Ramsay Folks, an 81-year-old accused of cutting down two trees on Meadowlark Lane in Sag Harbor in June of last year — in violation of the village’s new tree-protection law — was back in court on July 8, when a settlement proposed by Ms. Folks was rejected by the village and then withdrawn by her attorney.

Soldier Ride — The Hamptons, a community event to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, returns to the South Fork on Saturday, taking participants from the Amagansett Firehouse to Sag Harbor and back.

ChangeHampton, which promotes restorative, biodiverse, healthy, and sustainable landscaping practices as well as expansion of pollinator pathways on eastern Long Island, is offering a forum to further a conversation about “moving the needle,” as the climate crisis intensifies, on Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Nature Conservancy, at 142 Route 114 in East Hampton.

“Goosebumps” author at East Hampton Library, raptors at the Montauk Lighthouse, Dance Theatre of Harlem at Guild Hall, the Children's Museum of the East End's Family Fair, and more coming up for families and kids.

This still from an LTV archive video shows 1989’s competitors locked in a tight race for the clam shucking title.

A man “with white hair and a blue jacket” took another patron’s phone during a movie at the Regal Cinema and said he would not return it. He later told police he’d taken the phone to “make a stand” because the owner was talking loudly on it during the movie.

Two drivers were charged last week in unrelated cases with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after East Hampton Town police found bags containing a “white rock-like substance” in their vehicles.

A Brooklyn man was arraigned recently on multiple misdemeanor charges related to a May 25 accident that injured four passengers in his Mercedes S.U.V., according to police.

When a Clinton visit here was a novel thing. And much more from The Star of yore.

It’s a great tradition. The popular Montauk Grand Slam charity fishing tournament — now in its 25th year — will once again be held this weekend at Uihlein’s Marina on West Lake Drive.

Melina Sarlo, who’s about to enter her sophomore year at Hofstra University, where she’s playing on its women’s lacrosse team and majoring in business, was a member of the Argentine lacrosse team that recently qualified to play in the World Cup championships next summer in Tokyo.

The East Hampton Little League’s 10-U all-star baseball team became one of only a few in local annals to advance to sectional competition.

Kerri Walsh Jennings, a five-time Olympian (and three-time gold medalist) from California, will be in town this week to give a youth volleyball clinic at East Hampton High School Monday morning that is to be followed by a pro-am beach volleyball tournament Tuesday at Kirk Park in Montauk.